A young man with an insatiable thirst for acting, directing, movies and Bollywood had got himself introduced in the film line at a mere age of 17 years. Acting as an apprentice with cinematographer-director, Manmohan Singh, FarhanAkhtar, was picking up random elements about the film industry which was going to make him the head-turning Director cum singer cum lyricist cum actor that he is known as, in today's film industry!
FarhanAkhtar born to Honey Irani & JavedAkhtar, formed Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. with his friend,RiteshSidwani in 1999 and made his debut as a director in the film world with DILCHAHTAHAI. We,film watchers were over clad and overburdened with the various stereotyped cliched, 'jalebi', wanna-be 'zarahatke' but failing to make their mark movies and desperately sought for a movie that not only outdid all the aforementionned but also made us forget the daily woes that our lives bore and reflect on real life issues that one could co relate to and laugh at,at the same time!
DilChahtaHai, offered nothing but the perfect balm to our ailments. It was a pure fun movie that bore real life issues, that we youngsters could correlate to, laugh at and walk out of the hall feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and craving for more!
Next came Lakshya (2004), another one of its kind movie,which did not do him much good at the box office but earned him much due critical acclaim .
He also simultaneously wrote lyrics for GurindherChadha's movie Bride & Prejudice.
Not everybody can aim at re-making a masterpiece that was so glamorous in the 1st go that falling short or appearing cliched and failing to please the audience with the same concept is much feared. In spite of knowing all the short comings FarhanAkhtar took the leap and directed Don. Though the movie was critically hammered, it proved to be a great success at the box office, grossing over 50 crores, and being the fifth biggest hit of the year. He is also in the process of making Don 2-The Chase continues.
In 2007, he produced the film Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.which performed fairly well at the box office.
A Bollywood figure barely ever interests himself with a non-profit welfare activity, unlike FarhanAkhtar. In 2007, he directed, Positive, a 12-minute short-film on HIV stigma and the need for family support for the patient. Shot in Mumbai, it was part of 'AIDS JaaGo' (AIDS Awake), a series of four short films, directed by Mira Nair, Santosh Sivan, VishalBhardwaj and FarhanAkhtar, in a joint initiative of Mira Nair's Mirabai Films and voluntary organisations Avahan and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Today's generation of youth has some or the other kind of rock music either pumping through their veins or are a part of it without realising it. FarhanAkhtar recognized this very essence and tapped it and made crores out of it or as commonly known as ROCK ON. This was his first acting and singing debut in today's film industry.It was critically acclaimed as well as a box office blockbuster. Salim Khan was so impressed with Farhan's acting skills that Salim Khan awarded him with one of his Filmfare awards. He also appeared in his sister Zoya's directorial debut, Luck By Chance.
He has appeared as a judge on a few shows on television, including the first season of the dance-reality show, NachBaliye (2005), and the beauty pageant, Femina Miss India (in 2002). He is also a TV host on NDTV Imagine with his show: Oye! It's Friday!.
Listlessly, FarhanAkhtar has never failed to please his audience with creations as special as a chef cooking a made-to-order specially suited for you gourmet dinner. Born in a Bollywood family and with Bollywood blood flowing through his veins, he is making beautiful use of the various resources put out to him.
As FarhanAkhtar says,"Luck falls short if you don't have hard work to back it up with!"A man with his own panache for good fashion and excellent taste of presentation, he keeps thrilling his audience incessantly with his out of the box thinking and keeps up to his own morals.
Kudos to a man who has realised the need to production of alternative films!
With the onset of finishing college,comes the impending doom of limitlessly joblessness staying at home..and for a facebook-r that means atleast 5 hours of facebook. So i stumble upon khadke's note..something that claims to be soul searching in nature, so I think,"Why not!I'm jobless anyway!!", and set out for the same. The rules are that I'm supposed to list 10 things I love,hate and that don't bother me..Here goes nothing!
10 lovables:
1) Golden Retrievers.
2) Rock/other pleasable music.
3) Parents.
4) Dada.
5) Books.
6) Vacations.
7) Peaceful get together with friends or maybe long lost ones too.
8) Eating out!
9) Going to the movies.
10) Guilty pleasures( binging on desserts. over spending on myself or others anything...)
10 hateables:
1) Drunk, 'unable to control themselves' people.
2) Gymnema sylvestre stealers!
3) Making a decision.
4) Being criticised by worthless fools.
5) Dolled out advice/help when I didn't ask for any.
6) Helped by people I don't like.
7) Plans gone astray.
8) Going broke.
9) Nervousness before setting out for something new!
10) People closing my previously openned sites.
10 Don't-careables:
1) Random persons opinions about me, my lifestyle or anything for that matter of fact.
2) Politics.
3) What is affecting my karma or some similar stuff(ex-vastu shastra)!
4) What result I get on a Facebook quiz!
5) Cricket, tennis, Basketball!
6) What others feel is blood curdling!
7) Harry Potter, wizardry and all such bag of crap!
8) The new fashion line at some mall!
9) Vegetarians.
10) Food falling short at a party!
I have to say it is indeeed quite soul searching in nature took me quite sometime to finish something so simple!
An old tradition of ragging and freshers used to be a common happening, perhaps as common as a bengali, teaching other people bengali sayings or god forbid,the language itself! LOL Anyhow with the onset of UG batch 2006 gone were those days when ragging, dress codes and freshers used to be a part of the curriculum. It was all gone with the complains and "whatever"s. Along came lots of instances where 2k5 did its level best to put down 2k6 and 2k6 came up with some equally devilic fight backs.Some even fought back with senile poetry... :D
Act I,Scene I
1st hostel party of the year..Monsoon 2007..Friendship Day..its a party organised by the 2nd and 3rd years by collecting funds for the merry making of the fourth year. 2k5 took its first step of defiance and boycotted 2k6 from it and, we were very proud of ourselves.
Act I, Scene II
"Every action has an equal and opposite action". UG 2k6 didn't put up with ragging, hell! we didn't throw them FRESHERS! Take that...!
Act I, Scene III
Tables turn
2k5 has a vote and a settlement is achieved between two very hyper mobs on every minute issue and finally settled for "let them be our juniors!" and they got to participate in hostel nite '08.
Act II, Scene I
2k6 and 2k7 throw us a gala friendship day party! And, mind you a rather impressive one!
Act II, Scene 1.5
Heated discussion amidst all subgroups of 2k5 pertaining to whether we are getting a hostel night altogether!
Act II, Scene 1.75
Confirmation of Hostel Night discussion going on in the rooms of our juniors. OLA!
Act II, Scene II
Hostel Night party dates are clashing with lots of people activities on various sub levels.
Act II, Scene III
A final suitable date was devised and the Hostel night fever had started spreading with the putting up of the notice of the Hostel Night or AKA the official hostel night poster!
Act II, Scene IV
The hostel night fever had started spreading with the hunting down of tailors, matching accessories, running to gawher ali etc. etc.
Act II, Scene V
D-Day !!!! The endless queues at THE sari person(*&^%), people lining up for her to make them help out with their saris, then lining up next by me for getting their make up done; while Richa and Ishanie rant on about how we should get to the arena! And,oh! the occasional interruptions of our juniors in our rooms to rush to the arena,but alas! Ended up just standing there ;)
Act II, Scene VI
Finally, the beautiful ladies trotted into the arena; while my spirits chanted, "LET THE GAMES BEGIN!"
Epilogue
After four years, as I gear up to leave this wretched hell of a place, with which sadly enough like all the people who've been here & fell in love with, I be spared no different fate! Sadly enough, I couldn't get to know my juniors half as nicely I should have or shared better bonds with. As the celebration of Hostel Nite concluded and the hour approaches when my soul hums,"All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go...", I wish I had shared more "photographs and still frames in your mind " with my juniors and more.....
How crazy do you think it is to come up with something as awesome as "3 birthdays & a farewell"??? Well, a bunch of junkies high on life, that's who think of it!!! LOL. On a more serious note, a bunch of people who are just as crazy as me and who really get who I am!!! The bunch of crazy people who would cut a Jack-o-Lantern instead of a cake, had watermelon and guavas for party food, lemon tea as beverage and a masquerade party as the theme of the party was "GO ORGANIC!!!", for the birthday gal who was and does take it on herself to make up for eco-friendliness that all of us lack in exercising in our daily lives. FYI she had once ran around with a cup near IC so that people don't use the plastic cups and SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!!! LOL. Jokes apart! You want to throw a party that's not just a party, but to stir your soul? Ask these bunch of folks not ordinary,at all!!!
Step 1: Send formal invites to the guests intended. Step 2: Utilise all your otherwise free time, to decide the plan of what would entertain the guests concerned. Step 3: Add finishing touches to make it look extremely suave . Step 4: Shop for things that would be well suited by its owner! Step 5: Make the movement so smooth that it would seem like they were doing that since birth.
So you think four years is a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally Loooooooong time to spend in a small place like Ranchi which when compared to your usual run from your house to your beloved school seems minuscule? A place where the autos(the only payable conveyance readily available) made more noise than the ill-fated oxygen cylinder which crippled down the Apollo 13 mid air along with its space crew! A place which had so many rules and restrictions that made Alcatraz seem like a cheap attempt at a joke! A place where the lackadaisical attitude of the administration made you feel like you have mistakenly stepped into a government office? A place where facilities elsewhere within an arm reach, seems like a big honour on being available altogether!
Alas! darn it..darn the human body for being so adaptable and liking even the subjection of such heinous evils and hell even learning to love the tiny little perks of the place.
Its just a big bag of "greenery"(:evil grin:) and hell..you get to love even that!
The beautiful way the O.C. road lights up with the fresh green leaves with the onset of spring, the discovery of the "This is where BITOTSAV used to be held 50 years ago" spots, breaking into the rocketry deptt. and clicking a gazillion pictures at the same, going to the river with a bed sheet,alu parathas ,oranges and spending a lazy winter morning with a friend reading novels and snacking every once in a while, falling asleep on a road, sleeping off on the newspaper in the library while solving the crossword, staying outs & everything. After all, being a frequent facebook-r, the concept that this huge flimsy bag of greenery really makes the pictures add a touch if its own magic!
The place definitely has its own charisma..be it in its very apparent love of good and variant music amidst a certain circle of people; taste of exquisite gourmet food; value for money ambience, food and my personal favourite..BIT discount! you get it everywhere, be it seventh heaven or capitol hill and even PALASH!..alas we don't get it in floats..lol.
Guess, its all part of the game..as ma always made us include in every essay during our childhood days," As all good things must come to an end, so did this...", and as I end this article, I cough up the courage to say for once and for all,
A very ordinary day..exam time..full pressure..full work load..!
One day just before the exam I could not find my calculator, so off I went to the next door room, and and borrowed a calculator from the girl next door...!
There I went off for the examination, a "BUUUUUURNN..!!!!" paper, and I dashed out of the hall leaving my borrowed calculator back at the hall itself.!
So I lost a calculator that didn't belong to me, so I went and apologized to her, and promised to replace her calculator, and I went into hiding, not because I didn't want to, but I just thought that I'd go home and buy it once the winter holidays started (cause then I'm not spending my pocket money over it). Off to home I went...
The day I was supposed to come back to Ranchi, I went out and bought a calculator, and kept it in the room I kept everything I was supposed to pack.
Some how, I managed to not pack her calculator and come along. So there I was scurrying away whenever I caught a glimpse of her. But soon the cat caught up with the rat, and she interrogated me about the status of her much claimed to be replaced calculator, and I couldn't run away from the scene faster.
One day, she came to my room and said she needed the calculator the very next day for her, me running a cash crunch, could not manage for a new calculator the very other day. So I went hunting for a calculator, I couldn't find anybody who didn't need a calculator, finally I got one from a junior a rather sucky one as a last minute alternative. Then I got my new neighbour's calculator and handed it off to her. Then ended up running away from two people and now my neighbour's on my tail, haunting my room, leaving behind notes on my door etc. etc.
So finally, when I got the money today I went off and bought a calculator, and gave the calculator to my old neighbour took the new neighbour's calculator and gave it to my old neighbour and ended the vicious circle and boy does it feel great to be off the hook!
